In init() of the abstract CrudController:
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setViewBasePathSpec(Bootstrap::
$root.'/application/views');
$this->_helper->viewRenderer-
setViewScriptPathSpec('crud/:action.:suffix');
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->initView();
This will work, but the problem is that when an action is redirected,
the ViewRenderer is all messed up. For example, if an error ocurrs,
it
will try to render crud/error.phtml instead of error/error.phtml.
I could do pre/postDispatch magic here, bit it seems dirty.
Actually, that's a good way to do it -- have the controller clean up
after itself. Ideally, we should likely have the ErrorController setup
some sane defaults -- and you could, potentially, have it do just
that.
I don't like the idea of having ErrorController clean up other's mess.
Ideally, the "environment" (ViewRenderer) shouldn't be modified by the
actions, or, like you said, they should restore old settings after
running.
So your first suggestion seems the way to go, but as far as I can see,
the controller's postDispatch won't get called if the action method
throws an exception (I'm looking at
Zend_Controller_Action::dispatch(), where there's no try/catch block
around "$this->__call($action, array());"). So if an exception
ocurred, the controller wouldn't have the chance to "clean up" the
ViewRenderer and this isn't going to work :(
